Posted on 09/07/2005 3:35:54 PM PDT by NickatNite2003
Just heard on FOX that Blanco refused to allow supplies to be brought to the stadium, "Because they wanted all those people to leave, and they didn't want to create a magnet to bring others there, by bringing in food and water!"""
All of the above :-)
Louisiana
MG Bennett C. Landreneau
Adjutant General and Director
Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness
7667 Independence Blvd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
504-278-2812
I wonder if he, too, will now come on TV and cry.
WHAT is the NAME of Louisiana's Homeland Security Chief?????
Yeah Jindals canned response was "there is plenty of blame to go around", I swear every question and he responded with that.
"Bad gas today congressman?"
"There is plenty of blame to go around Britt"
"But your wife admitted that she fed you plenty of beans"
etc...
Jesus and I thought that New Jersey's McGreedy did a bad job hiring his lover for the position of state Homeland Security Chief.
I'd like to know how they spent that money too.
This comes from another freeper:
A HISTORY OF LEVEE NEGLECT--BROUGHT TO YOU BY LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS
1991-1995: New Orleans Levee Board allegedly undertakes a $140 million building campaign covering 41 projects to close "within four years" the gaps in New Orleans protection from floods.
1996: New Orleans Levee Board cited by Louisiana Legislative Auditor for the way "it awards contracts, spends money, and ignores public bid laws.
1996: The New Orleans newspaper, the Time-Picayune States Item reports the levee board is near bankruptcy and, quoting the Legislative Auditor, stated it "should not be allowed to refinance any bonds, or issue new ones, until it submitted an acceptable plan to achieve solvency.
1996: New Orleans Levee Board loses its authority to refinance its debts, jeopardizing the building campaign. Without the bond financing, the Levee Board is also unable to obtain Federal matching funds.
1998: Louisiana enacts a $2 billion construction budget. Only 0.1% is dedicated to levee improvements ($1.98 million). The construction budget does fund improvements to the Louisiana Supreme Court ($22 million), and the New Orleans Convention Center ($35 million).
1999: Louisiana appropriates $49.5 million for levee improvements, subject to allocation by the State Bond Commission. Levee improvements are designated "Priority 5"--projects "least likely to receive full or immediate funding". It is likely that no construction took place.
2001: The New Orleans Levee Board defers $3.7 million in capital improvements because local residents voted down a proposed tax increase to fund expanding operations by the Board. This will result in $47 million in work, covering 60 projects, to be deferred long term. The projects included work to shore up floodwalls.
2002: Louisiana allocates ZERO dollars to hurricane protection projects, leaving 65 percent Federal matching funds for such efforts untouched. State senator Francis Heitmeier (D-Algiers [the "West Bank" of New Orleans] would tell the Times-Picayune: "The problem is money is real tight in Baton Rouge right now; we have to do with what we can get."
2002: Louisiana Commissioner of Administration tells local officials (presumably Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines parishes) that they stood a higher chance of getting flood control projects funded if they reduced their requests to the state for money in less critical areas. There is no record of any discretionary funding requests being reduced or withdrawn.
2003 (October): St. Charles parish receives a Federal grant for $475,000 for levee construction--this is used to build a bike path on top of the levee.
A better sign would be CORRUPT IDIOT...
She made it quickly after GWB noted that he was offering to take over the rescue, relief and evacuation effort. Good guess that DNC and/or Hillary! put Witt in the position. Makes sense. Bllanco is unstable enough that without being propped up, it would be obvious she is totally incompetent. And incompetent Democrats, we can't have.
You all see this already?
I am just speechless.
This is NOT George Bush's fault.
you would think so.
Is that the name of the Homeland Security Chief? What about his Background??
Oh, ok. I just saw him standing somewhere in his open neck shirt.....oh, I think he's in Miss. Waveland? Playground for New Orleans...now the people are gone and so is the town. Very dramatic.
I'd love to know his background. Know how corrupt LA politics are, the guy is probably dead. Literally.
He didn't see Red Cross, but I saw Salvation Army in few at one collection point in NO.
No! Blanco doesn't want them to leave because so many
reliable DemonRAT voters were there! Consider: If all
of people of New Orleans are gone, who is there left to
to vote for DemonRATs, or for anyone? The major Democrat voting bloc of Louisiana has been blown away by the wind and washed out of town by the flood waters. Who is there left to vote for them? The Democrat party of La. is crapping in there pants over this.
Is Jefferson Parish still a disaster area?
And those procedures are THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT TAKES THE LEAD AND THE FED PROVIDES THE ASSISTANCE THEY ASK FOR.
If the state and local governments completely fail to do their jobs then the federal government has to invent, on the spot, a replacement to take over. That takes a few days. Oh, and the only way the President can exercise that option, under law, is to declare the state "in insurrection." Of course, that would mean he would have to move in troops to first shoot those in state and local government. Then they could look to providing aid and comfort to the citizens.
What part of the civics 101 concept of federalism don't you understand?
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